I find the Accufeed doesn’t do well on curves due to the bulkiness of the feet.Īfter making and trimming the blocks, I attempted to match points when putting them together, but this went by the wayside pretty quickly. I ended up using my regular, non-Accufeed, quarter inch foot on my sewing machine. We used the free included Urban Runner pattern, but basically the class was to figure out a little about how to use the ruler itself. Enter Sylvia (aka CreativeChicky) and her QCR class at Addicted to Fabric in Canberra. But I needed some help figuring out how to use it. I bought a Quick Curve Ruler ages ago because I was interested in the Metro Rings (double wedding ring) pattern. My table & practicing the Quick Curve Ruler When pulling off the freezer paper, some of the stitches did pull a little bit. I buried the threads, but some I left too short to knot. First did 1/2″ spaced lines, then filled in 1/4″, stopping at the letters. Used a 3.0 straight stitch to straight line quilt using the open toe Accufeed foot. Used the one inch grid on my cutting mat to draw out the letters. Used freezer paper to make “LOVE” block letters 6″ tall. I made a test block to see the best way of stitching it down – a 3.5 length straight stitch worked better than the typical blind hem stitch I’d use on turned edge machine applique. Ended up using a bit of heat from my iron (no steam) and then pinned a whole bunch to keep in place. Used pre-bought, single fold 1″ bias for heart. ![]() Have you thought of any fake quilt news headlines? Let me know in the comments. Shocking Result: Every Member of Ridiculously Long Quilt-a-Long finishes on Time Modern Quilt Guild to no longer allow Quilts with Squares and Rectangles at QuiltConĪurifil Thread so Expensive because it’s Woven with the Hair of Italian Children Mary Fons trying to take away Quilters’ Rotary Cutters I’m not the first – QuiltingSewingCreating was on top of this weeks ago, but I couldn’t stop thinking of fake headlines. Since fake news is like click bait on steroids, I thought it would be appropriate to make up some fake quilt news headlines. The proliferation of fake news on Facebook has been in the real news lately, with highly depressing real word consequences. The Salty Quilter | Quilts, crafts, salty rants and swears.
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